Loreleiâs query about fashion history books is a good question. The problem encountered by the lace historian is to try to figure out what all these pieces of lace in museum collections started out trying to be. It is very vexing, and I wish I understood the topic better. I have found the books by Aileen Ribeiro to be very helpful.
The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France, 1750-1820 Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe 1715-1789 A problem with a lot of books is that they cover such a long period that they donât spend much time on any particular era, and thus any time spent on lace is infinitesimal. That said, I find on my shelf: Four Hundred Years of Fashion, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Visual History of Costume, Ribeiro & Coming, Accessories of Dress, An Illustrated Encyclopedia, Lester & Oerke The Art of Dress, Clothes and Society, 1500-1914, Jane Ashelford Victorian and Edwardian Fashion, A photographic survey, Alison Gernstein This last book is a Dover book that I picked up at Craftsman Farm in Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ, the workshop of Gustav Stickley, a designer for the Arts and Crafts movement. This book has the merit that pictures donât lie. Any book that is actually written about fashion quite likely leaves out the lace as unimportant. But photographs of the late 19th and early 20th century can show lace on them. It is mostly these strange shaped accessories that one does find in museum collections, and antique shows, sometimes even composed of older lace. So, my only fault with this book is that I wish there were more photographs and even less writing. Devon Sent from Mail for Windows 10 - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
